When

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

From 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM CDT

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Where

SCORE Office, Citicorp Center 
500 W. Madison Street
Suite 1150
Chicago, IL 60661
 

 
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SCORE Chicago 
312-353-4540 
mjairala@scorechicago.org 
 

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Special of this month pay only $25.00

Managing Operations in a Small Business

 

 Overview:

 Workshop will give attendees of small businesses (product or service business), a perspective on

 Effectively managed business operation is essential to having a successful business. Each

 Business participant will leave the workshop session and be able to define their individual path

 To better operational performance and in turn achieve better business performance.

Description:

Why is this topic relevant to Small Businesses?

Many small businesses, in their early stages face instability and struggle to get to sustainable positive cash flow. Turning around a small business experiencing instability or propelling a stable business to next level of growth, requires among others, an understanding of measuring and optimizing its operations. 

Workshop Description:

Workshop has (3) distinct discussion sets:
 

1. INITIAL SET: Defines small business & discusses vulnerabilities/limitations of small businesses and, makes the case that successful business results have to have successfully managed operations.

2. CORE SET : The 3Ps ( People, Process, Product) of operations are presented to be interdependent and illustrates how & why small businesses need the right people, managing the right processes to deliver high quality products on time, to customers.

3. FINAL SET: Five (5) takeaways attendees of small businesses can start implementing right away on their own, or with assistance from SCORE mentors, SCBC consultants & SBA resources.

Speaker:

Masoom Ahmed 

He has Engineering & Business degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Chicago respectively. Masoom had a long career at various levels in Operations Management in US and ex US locations, with Abbott Laboratories, a fortune 100 company. Currently Masoom is an independent consultant, and as Principal MAC Group LLC provides services to small businesses in the area of ‘business & operational due diligence”, for small businesses to achieve stable performance and to strategize on future growth. 


REGISTRATION FEE $50.00

Special of this month, PAY $25.00

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